infrangible

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This is how the enchantment, which was apparently so infrangible, was broken.

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  1. adjective Difficult or impossible to break or separate into parts.
  2. adjective Inviolable: infrangible human rights.

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  • And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship-be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles-is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. —  WORLD Magazine | Community
  • My stroll through the children's toy store has shown that not only is Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' perhaps more infrangible than ever before, but that the 'banality of evil' now wears a jejune mask with a smile. —  Thomas Paine's Corner
  • And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan motherr-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. —  [ hold :: this space ]
  • When you let citizenry know about Exposed Office citizenry have two reactions, infrangible joy or verbalize disbelief. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Rib, an infrangible one, 90. —  The Biglow Papers
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Late Latin īnfrangibilis : Latin in-, not; see in-1 + Latin frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French infrangible = Spanish infrangible = Italian infrangibie; as in- + frangible.
 

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/ɪnˈfrændʒɪbl/
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